{"id":364525,"date":"2015-06-15T10:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=364525"},"modified":"2015-06-16T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:40:02","slug":"jay-dean-to-seek-state-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=364525","title":{"rendered":"Jay Dean to Seek State House Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/JayDeanSpeakingLNJ_1434377521628_1433353_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/JayDeanSpeakingLNJ_1434377521628_1433353_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JayDeanSpeakingLNJ_1434377521628_1433353_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-364526\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; The most recent former mayor of Longview has revealed plans to formally announce a bid for the Texas House of Representatives.  According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Jay Dean said he will seek election to District 7 Rep. David Simpson&#8217;s House seat.  That&#8217;s in the wake of dual announcements by state Sen. Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler, that he would not seek re-election in 2016 &#8212; and Simpson&#8217;s statement he intends to campaign for Eltife&#8217;s Senate seat. &#8220;I intend to make my announcement shortly that I will be a candidate for House District Seat 7,&#8221; Dean said Sunday afternoon. &#8220;I have been vetting the process over this time with close associates and business associates. And I feel good. I have been encouraged for the last three to four months at a minimum by citizens to consider running for the seat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; The most recent former mayor of Longview has revealed plans to formally announce a bid for the Texas House of Representatives. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Jay Dean said he will seek election to District 7 Rep. David Simpson&#8217;s House seat. That&#8217;s in the wake of dual announcements by state Sen. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=364525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jay Dean to Seek State House Seat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":364526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 23:03:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365971,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364525\/revisions\/365971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/364526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}